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Senator slammed over beastlyargument

Following widespread condemnation of last night’s comments detailed below, Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi has just resigned as Tony Abbott’s Parliamentary Secretary, which Abbott has accepted.

At a media conference this morning, Abbott described Bernardi’s behaviour as “ill-disciplined.”

“Clearly he’s been guilty of lack of judgement,” he added.

For Abbott, whose sister is an a same-sex relationship, the issue is close to home.

“There are a range of views, but we have got to discuss these things in a respectful way,” the opposition leader realises.

Bernardi will continue as a Senator, but will now no longer be in the position of Shadow Parliamentary Secretary.

A Liberal Senator slipped to new lows during the debate on marriage equality yesterday, suggesting legalising same-sex marriage could lead to polygamy… and even bestiality.

Cory Bernardi (pictured), from Adelaide and representing South Australia, told the Senate last night that he did not support the push for changing the Marriage Act as he warned Australians of what he thought the consequences would be.

“It is another chip in the fabric of our social mores,’’ he announced. “Time and time again the same characters seek to tear down our institutions that have been built and have sustained our civilisation for thousands of years. The time has come to ask, when will it end? If we are prepared to redefine marriage, what is the next step?

“The next step, quite frankly, is having three people or four people that love each other being able to enter into a permanent union endorsed by society.”

He added: “There are even some creepy people out there – and I say ‘creepy’ deliberately – who are unfortunately afforded a great deal more respect than I believe they deserve. These creepy people say it is okay to have consensual sexual relations between humans and animals.

“In the future will we say, ‘These two creatures love each other and maybe they should be able to be joined in a union’.”

A wave of criticism followed Bernardi’s comments, by fellow Liberal, Labor and other Senators alike, as politicians rushed to condemn his insensitivity.

Liberal front bencher Joe Hockey reminded Senators talking about the issue: “This needs to be a measured and sensitive debate. People do have strong views, they’re entitled to strong views… but this doesn’t help.”

Other Senators were harsh, including the Greens’ Sarah Hanson-Young, who tweeted: “Bigotry shouldn’t be tolerated by the leadership of any party. Abbott should sack Senator Bernardi.”

I'd rather have passionate Catholic compared to a dozen mealy-mouthed, nodding, PC schlemeils who spend their days in the back rooms with lobbyists and decide policy along party lines and according to the latest polls.

Why shouldn't 3 or 4 people be able to enter a permanent union too? No good reason to disallow that either. And if there are creepy Liberal senators out there who venture down different paths ... who cares :P

What other people do is none of my business except when we taxpayers are asked to pay for it.

We're embracing and assisting those forms of unions with Centrelink acting on our behalf. Centrelink is our biggest care-giver and they are doing their best to help and protect each and every one of us.

The following article mentions of the requests for polyamourous religious ceremonies happening every week. This man says a proper marriage is the decent way to honour and respect our women: it's a compliment to the original partner [to] go into it again.

This article says Centrelink —acting on our behalf— is investigating up to 20 cases of multiple relationships, including polygamy, in the past two years.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/growing-number-of-muslim-men-and-multiple-wives-exploiting-loophoole-for-taxpayer-handouts/story-e6frf7jo-1225837150560

And here's the tabloid TV version with Henk Jongen talking on our behalf at 7.12 in the clip—
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqcwmBbCsR8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HwAVIpz-Ko
http://www.sbs.com.au/insight/episod...w/479/Polygamy
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1...olygamist-says

Pity to see that people still think this way. But everyone is entitled to their own views I suppose. Personally, if Bernadi were to ever be divorced from his wife, I'd send him a blow up sheep to keep him company. :]

I'd rather have passionate Catholic compared to a dozen mealy-mouthed, nodding, PC schlemeils who spend their days in the back rooms with lobbyists and decide policy along party lines and according to the latest polls.

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Mark your choosing to forget all the Catholics who support marriage equality. Also you do realize your defending a guy who claims that you will fuck a cow if gay marriage is legalized? You obviously don't have high expectations of MPs and senators. Oh and one more thing, everybody is politicaly correct to a degree.

What a shame they cant add the question to the next vote we have to do and leave it up to the public and not these bunch of bigots.

you think that dickhead politicians aren't representative of the population?

Who was it that said "You get the government you deserve"??

What we really should be doing is concentrating on educating the general public and slanting the whole issue that way.

Religious organisations know that democracy is a numbers game - that's why they don't like birth control. they want their followers to have as many children as possible so that their "flock" multiply and thus have more votes and say in government.

we are better off lobbying to have the baby bonus and such child support schemes limited to 1 child per parent - too many fundamentalists are having babies that our taxes are paying for.

homophobia in parliament is just the tip of the iceberg. the rest of it is in our community, schools, churches, neighbourhoods and workplaces.

I was asked at a debate a few weeks ago about the perceived differences between straight and gay relationships....I concluded my teams debate with a 10 second closing....The ONLY difference between straight and gay marriage.......I couldn't possibly conceive".....even the Christians laughed!
Seriously though, Cory Bernardi has a website where he clearly states he supports a Judeo-Christian stance on family and society. I'm sure his constituents knew who they were getting into the senate.
As for his stupidity, he fails to comprehend that straight married men have been fucking around far more than the gays, and sheep shagging in New Zealand has been de rigeur for two centuries. I do wonder though if his notion on poly-amory was a consequence of reading his old testament account of the wives of Solomon, or Abraham shagging his house keeper because his wife was barren? Funnily enough the Bible never tells us how many husbands King david had...mind you he did lust after Jonathan, and have his best soldier killed so he could fuck his widow. I should note too that Cory Bernardi must look up his scripture about that slut sister in law; her husband was inconsiderate enough to die before she bore a child, so was required to spread her legs for each of her brothers in law till she fell preggers. I wonder if the family goat got an end in too?
Cory Bernardi may have been thought a fecking idiot, this time though he opened his mouth and proved it.

All these politicians that voted against gay marriage have failed every Australian.
If you are a catholic fine but if your elected into parliament you are elected to protect all Australians NOT further your churches agenda.
There is a frightening pattern emerging in Australian politics and quite frankly their is no difference between our government and the Taliban as both crush the rights of the individual.
This is a sad day indeed for australia.

He's only resigned as parliamentary secretary He's still earning a nice little wage courtesy of the tax payer (and will be for life once he retires). There is no reason whatsoever to feel sorry for him.

I'd rather have passionate Catholic compared to a dozen mealy-mouthed, nodding, PC schlemeils who spend their days in the back rooms with lobbyists and decide policy along party lines and according to the latest polls.

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What if we had fundamentalist Mogans running parliament? Would we all get stoned ( like with hard rocks)?

I'd rather have passionate Catholic compared to a dozen mealy-mouthed, nodding, PC schlemeils who spend their days in the back rooms with lobbyists and decide policy along party lines and according to the latest polls.